Mr. Tholstrup and Ms. Dogon

Ms. Laetitia Dogon is a French student who came from the Leiden University in Holland. She speaks several languages. Therefore, she assists at the event and is responsible for the English and French announcements.
Mr. Hans Tholstrup, Special Adviser of Energy of the Promotion Club Japan, came to the event from his hotel on his bike (not a solar bike, but an ordinary).

Volunteers work together in many areas

Mr. Tatekawi, who is in charge of the car inspection, cooperates as a volunteer. He participated at the WSR in the former solar car Yokohama National University Team. He, and many other volunteers, support the event in a good way in many areas.

Wakakusakun hangs in the air on a rope

This is a picture at the pit of the No.1 Saitama Kenritsu Toyoka High School. Wakakusakun hangs on a rope in the air. However, 'he' is not treated badly, but 'Wakakusakun' is the name of the bike. The bike hangs on a rope to fix it and to maintain the bike in a good condition.

Garage Shop

This year too, there is a garage shop at the event. It sells T-shirts and many other things. Two 'canopy'(=window screen) are being sold. Mr. Doi and Mr. Goda of the Team Kataro (solar car team from Ogata-mura) are making the window screen. "We are confident about the efficiency. Besides, they are cheap.", they both said.

It may be a little unusual everywhere

-"It looks to me that the tuning of the brakes are a little poor."
-"Really?"
-"Eh, he's about to take our picture."
-"Then I'll smile right now!"
We think their conversation went like this.

He explains how to do the test

He explains it loudly using the megaphone at a very close range. Maybe because he has closed its bike tightly, the rider could not hear it.